42 Quotes About Anger

"The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable."

- Thomas Fuller

Topics: Anger, Revenge

"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. He who wants it hath a maimed mind."

- Thomas Fuller

Topics: Anger

"Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry."

- Henry Ward Beecher

Topics: Anger

"When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an 'idol,' something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is absolute. Your anger is actually the way the idol keeps you in its service, in its chains. Therefore if you find that, despite all the efforts to forgive, your anger and bitterness cannot subside, you may need to look deeper and ask, 'What am I defending? What is so important that I cannot live without?' It may be that, until some inordinate desire is identified and confronted, you will not be able to master your anger."

- Tim Keller

Topics: anger, bitterness, forgiveness, happiness, idolatry, security

"There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart."

- Thomas Fuller

Topics: Gossip, The Tongue, Anger

"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help."

- Thomas Fuller

Topics: Anger

"To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine."

- Isaac Watts

Topics: Anger

"Anger is short-lived in a good man."

- Thomas Fuller

Topics: Anger

"I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; for when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart."

- Martin Luther

Topics: Anger, Work

"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

- Henry Ward Beecher

Topics: Anger

"Abused patience turns to fury."

- Thomas Fuller

Topics: Patience, Anger

"The meek are not those who are never at all angry, for such are insensible; but those who, feeling anger, control it, and are angry only when they ought to be. Meekness excludes revenge, irritability, morbid sensitiveness, but not self-defense, or a quiet and steady maintenance of right."

- Assorted Authors

Topics: Anger, Revenge, Meekness

"When I am angry I can pray well and preach well."

- Martin Luther

Topics: Anger, Prayer, Preaching

"Love is the only thing in which we can retaliate with God. If God be angry with us, we must not be angry again; if He chide us, we must not chide Him again; but if God loves us, we must love Him again. There is nothing in which we can answer God again, but love. We must not give Him word for word, but we must give Him love for love."

- Thomas Watson

Topics: Love, Anger

"Wise anger is like fire from the flint; there is a great ado to bring it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately."